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“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
Ingrid Bergman
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
William Blake
“Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.”
Francis Bacon
“Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.”
Francis Bacon
“Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.”
Francis Bacon
“We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.”
Francis Bacon
“Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.”
Francis Bacon
“The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.”
Francis Bacon
“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”
John Rockefeller
“Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.”
Vincent Van Gogh
“It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.”
Vincent Van Gogh
“Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.”
Jonathan Swift
“I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.”
Desmond Tutu
“Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.”
Virginia Woolf
“It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.”
Virginia Woolf
“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.”
Walt Whitman
“In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.”
Alan Watts
“All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.”
John Adams
“To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.”
Ansel Adams
“There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.”
Ansel Adams
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”
Marcus Aurelius
